Dr. Muhamad Abduh is currently working as an AssistantProfessor of Islamic Finance at the UBD School of Business and Economics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He has obtained his Bachelor of Science (Statistics) from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) in 2004 and Magister Hukum Islam (Fiqh Al-Mu’amalat) from Ibn Khaldun University, Indonesia, in 2006. He completed his second Master at the Department of Economics of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) from 2007 to 2009 and Doctor of Philosophyin Busines Administration (Islamic Banking) at the same institution from 2009 to 2011.

He started his career as an academic in 2004 when he was hired by Kolej Ekonomi Islam Tazkia (Bogor, Indonesia) as a lecturer teaching statistics and quantitative related modules until 2006. He was working as a part-time lecturerat the Kulliyah of Economics and Management Sciences of IIUM from 2009 to 2011 and promoted to Assistant Professor in April 2012 after completing his PhD until 2015 when he moved to Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

His research and teaching interests are focused on the area of Islamic Economics, Business, Banking and Finance. He presented papers in many conferences and published more than fifty articles in various journals such as International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, International Journal of Excellence in Islamic Banking and Finance, Journal of Islamic Economics,Banking and Finance, American Journal of Applied Sciences, Business Intelligence Journal, Journal of Islamic Finance, and et cetera. At the moment, his citations and h-index for Scopus and Google-Scholars are 38 and 3, and 478 and 12 respectively.

Dr. Abduh has written four academic books. The first book was published in Indonesia in 2009 and titled “Zakat: from the perspective of Fiqh and Modern Macroeconomic”. The second book was published in 2013 by John-Wiley & Sons, a New York based publisher, titled “Fundamentals of Islamic Money and Capital Markets”. The third book was published by IIUM Press in 2016 titled “Foundation of Islamic Finance”. Lastly, the fourth book was published byUNISSA Press in 2017 titled “Deposit Withdrawal Behavior in Islamic Banking”.

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate:

1. Statistical Methods

2. Decision Science

3. Business Mathematics

4. Money and Banking

5. Foundation of Islamic Economics

6. Foundation of Islamic Finance

7. Transactions in Islamic Economics

8. Issues in Islamic Economics

9. Islamic Banking and Finance

Postgraduate:

1. Quantitative Methods

2. Islamic Capital Markets3. Risk Management for IFIs

Research Interests

1. Islamic Banking Practices

2. Islamic Finance - Growth Nexus

3. Islamic Banking Customer Behavior

4. Zakat and Awqaf

5. Issues in Islamic Economics

6. Islamic Microfinance (The Role and The Performance of Islamic Microfinancial Institutions)

7. Muslim Debt Behavior

8. Measuring Performance of Islamic Financial Institutions

8. Islamic Capital Markets

9. Behavioral Finance

Supervision

During his service to the IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance, from April 2012 to June 2015, Dr Muhamad Abduh had supervised more than 15 Master students and 2 PhD Students in various topics of Islamic Finance, e.g. Islamic banking and Takaful performance, Islamic microfinance, Islamic capital market, Islamic banking market power, etc.